While performing a routine review of the record of a currently hospitalized patient at an inpatient mental health facility, Omar, the health information manager, notes an entry by a staff therapist that she had seen a visitor selling drugs to this and two other patients on the unit. Omar's boss comes up to him and asks if he knows anything about a drug dealer in the hospital. How Omar responds will primarily be a test of his _____.
a. Autonomy
b. Paternalism
c. Veracity
d. Prejudicexc